Reading Time: < 1 min We all have a list of problems that we’re working through, often put together on some kind of to-do list. It’s great to check things off the list, but it often seems like checking one thing off leads to putting something else on it. You’re not wrong. In the book “The Personal MBA“, author Josh […]
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Organize your world’s information
Reading Time: 2 min Part of Google’s original mission statement was to “organize the world’s information”. While they’re imperfect, I think they’ve done far more toward that goal than any other company in history. You can search for almost anything from “the world’s information” and they’ll find it for you. While Google is great at organizing the world’s information, […]
Write notes with propositional titles
Reading Time: < 1 min As I’m digging further into the Obsidian tool, I’ve also been taking a closer look at how I assemble my notes. I came across a fantastic article from Nick Seitz that dug into a lot of the first steps one might take with Obsidian, and it included the push to use “propositional titles”. In short, […]
Moving from Roam Research to Obsidian
Reading Time: 3 min Over the past few weeks, I’ve been moving my primary notes database from Roam Research to Obsidian. It’s a move I’ve long known I was going to make, but I’ve been waiting for Obsidian to add a few more features to help me get there. They added them, and now I’ve moved. It’s similar to […]
What does “done” look like?
Reading Time: < 1 min With most things that we work on, there is some end goal in sight. Publish the website. Mow the grass. Run a marathon. In some cases, though, there isn’t a “done” to be found. This blog is a great example of that, in that I have no end goal in mind. In most cases, though, […]
How long to recover?
Reading Time: < 1 min When reading the book “Effortless” by Greg McKeown, he made a big push toward encouraging us to take small steps. It’s not unlike what I’ve talked about before with One Percent Can Make a Huge Difference, but he took it a bit further, saying: “Do not do more today than you can completely recover from […]
Progress moves at the speed of trust
Reading Time: < 1 min If you want to move your business forward, trust isn’t an optional component. People need to know they can trust you, and you need to learn to trust those around you. Stephen Covey said it well: “Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down—in a relationship, on a team, in […]
Flow follows process
Reading Time: < 1 min Getting into a state of flow can be amazing. It could happen while you’re writing, painting, running, or many other things. Time slows down and things feel effortless. We all know well enough that for things like exercising, the decision to do it is often more work than the actual exercise. Once we get going, […]
How big is your unread library?
Reading Time: 2 min I try to set up my life so that the “next steps” are often right in front of me. When I sit down to write a blog post, I usually have 20-25 ideas already sitting there waiting for me, so I can just pick one and get to it. I keep a list of ideas […]
Reliability makes work easier
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve long said that the level of trust that I have in my team helps make my life much easier. Among other things, I know that if I send an email to one of them to get something taken care of, I don’t need to remind myself to follow-up — it gets done. However, a […]